Mojahedin Iran (MEK): February 2015

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Muslim forum on ’terrorism’ seekseducation reform

Al-Azhar mosque, one of the oldest Islamic universities, in the old city of Cairo, Egypt

AFP - 25 February 2015 - A counter-terrorism conference attended by senior Muslim scholars from around the world on Wednesday called for education reform to tackle religious extremism.
Participants at the meeting in the Saudi holy city of Mecca urged Muslim leaders to review the religious messages in education, 'to achieve a more moderate approach.'

UN: unrestrictedaccess to medical services for Iranian dissidents in Iraq

The conference in Geneva to support Camp Liberty residents in Iraq

The conference on the United Nations obligations and assisting Camp Liberty residents in Iraq, was held in Geneva Switzerland in United Nation’s Palais des Nations on Friday, 20th February 2015. The conference was held under the auspices of France Libertes-Foundation of Danielle Mitterrand, Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty, Women’s Human Rights International Association-WHRIA, and International Educational Developent – IED.

Tehran: Statesecurity forces backed off facing furious youth

The township of Ekbatan in Tehran

Around noon time last Monday where a group of people had gathered in the town of Ekbatan to protest the water cutoff, the state security forces arrived to disperse the crowd and prevent the gathering from taking momentum. This provoked youth in that gathering, who had prevented the government officials from leaving without doing something to start the flow of water, to stand their ground and attack the suppressive security forces and giving them a lesson not to be forgotten.

Friday, February 27, 2015

Iran’sneighboring countries furious over the West concessions to Iran’s mullahs onnuke talk

Arak Heavy Water reactor

Persian Gulf Arab States and other neighboring counties are getting ever more anxious and concerned as the terms of a possible deal to curb Iran’s ambitions for a nuclear bomb is emerging.

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Report andRecommendations on the humanitarian crisis of Camp Liberty, Iraq

Ad Melkert, former Special Representative of the UN for Iraq

Note of reference
'After having served as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-¬‐General for Iraq (July 2009-¬‐September 2011) I have naturally continued to feel intensely involved with the fate and future of the people of Iraq. I am frequently asked to comment on political, economic, social and humanitarian developments and to contribute to policy debate and recommendations.

Tehran City Hall agents punished by vendors

A number of Tehran’s City Hall operatives harassed an old vendor in Shahristani Bazaar and Imam Hussein Square on Monday Feb. 23rd. The incident sparked a severe reaction by tradesmen in bazaar.

Fireworks dealers arrested for selling firecrackers

Tehran’s suppressing State Security and city hall employees operating out of Moalavi crossroad and surrounding alleys, attacked youth who were buying and selling firecrackers and other materials for feast of fire celebration held on the last Wednesday of the Iranian New Year in order to create an atmosphere of intimidation and fear among the public in the region. They started to beat and injure the firework sellers to disperse them and force them to leave.

15million judicial cases unsolved in Iran

At a ceremony dubbed inauguration of judiciary trainees held on Feb. 24th, Mullah Amoli Larijani, the head of the regime’s judiciary acknowledged that in addition to many cases of lawsuits we have in our hands, there are 15 million other cases in different levels of the judicial work in courts around the country.

Iran’s IRGC assignment in developinginternet crackdown and cyber terrorism

Iranian regime seeks developing internet crackdown

According to staterun news resources, Ali Reza Rahmani, assigned to 'cyber security' spoke on regime’s projects for developing internet crackdown and cyber terrorism. He reiterated on improvement in the Command structure of the Cyber Defense and replacing its director and said: from here on, the center for investigating organized cyber-crimes will operate under the supervision of this commanding base

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Iran, Ahwaz: Uncertaintyaround the issue of 700million tomans bad debt to 700 retired employees

Protest gathering of unpaid retired employees of Pipe Production Factory

More than 700 retired employees of a Pipe Production Factory in Khuzestan who have been spending their retirement time for past 4 years are protesting unpaid retirement salary and befits for 30 months out of the 48 months that they have been out of job. Each of these employees own 35 to 45 million tomans from the company which is run by the Iranian regime cronies.

Political prisoner Saman Nasim

The whereabouts and the condition of Saman Nasim, a Kurdish political prisoner who was transferred last week to a solitary prior to execution is unknown. His family has been trying every place and every government organization to get news about their loved one.

Tehran: Lack of medical treatment forpolitical prisoner; Mohsen Daneshvar

Political prisoner Mohsen Daneshvar

Political prisoner Mohsen Daneshvar, a relative of one of the MEK residents of Liberty Camp has been in a critical health condition in prison and has been under constant mental torture by his criminal captors.

Iran,Kermanshah: Two public executions

Two public executions in Kermanshah City

The clerical regime anti-human judiciary hanged two prisoners in two different parts of Kermanshah City in public aimed at intimidating and creating an atmosphere of horror while itself fearing intensified social unrest. One prisoner was hanged in Azadi Sq. and the second in Jafar-Abad district.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Iran, Ardebil: protest and strike of theworkers of the twin towers

Half finished twin towers in Ardebil

Workers at the twin towers project in Koasar town, Ardebil, western Iran, stopped working in protest to their unpaid and delayed salaries. The project manager has told the workers that they do not have enough money to pay their salaries. The twin towers project has been left half-finished for more than a year now, because of poor management and extortions by the regime’s authorities.

Iranian regime’s president, Mullah Rouhaniinsisted on the continuation of nuclear program

Rouhani insist Iran continuation of nuclear program

In a speech to in the religious city of Qom, central Iran, the mullahs’ president Rouhani insisted on Iran’s continuation of nuclear program calling the nuclear bomb making machine that Iran is pursuing as scientific progress. This, as the nuclear talks with the West has come to a crucial juncture and the international community is trying to broker a deal with Iran to curb its nuclear weapons ambition.

Iran, Bushehr: Protestgathering of teachers against the dismissal of the province director general

Education Ministry building in Bushehr

Dozens of Bushehr teachers gathered on

Tuesday to protest the dismissal of the province’s director general of the education department.
Local dailies report that the gathering took place in front of the local Education Ministry building in Bushehr. The protesters also rallied towards the governor’s office after a large number of them converged in front of the ministry.

Giving Iraneverything it wants

Sen. Robert Menendez and Sen. Bob Corker on Capitol Hill

WP- February 23 - Perhaps Congress should have invited King Abdullah of Jordan or Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to speak about an impending deal that would look like this: Iran gets to keep its entire nuclear infrastructure and, in 15 years, gets to build a bomb. I am certain the two leaders would have the same reaction as the Israelis or as any sentient member of Congress, namely that this would be a complete capitulation to the mullah’s demands, a repudiation of Democratic and Republican administration’s position, and the first step in a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

Findings come as Obama administration inches closer to nuke deal

An Iranian dissident group known for exposing key aspects of Iran’s secret nuclear work claims it now has evidence of “an active and secret parallel nuclear program” operated by Tehran.

Money earned from drug-trafficking influences all arenas in Iran politic

Rouhani’s Interior Minister Rahmani Fazli made an unprecedented acknowledgement that the dirty money earned from drug-trafficking influences all arenas in politics, including the sham elections and the transfer of political power. Speaking to a gathering of Anti-Narcotics Police he said, “10000 billion tomans per year is the market for narcotics inside our country and an equal amount is the market for drug transit. Thus the yearly market for narcotics is 20000 billion tomans that is equal to two thirds of country’s development budget”.

NCRI press Conference in Washington National Press Club

Washington Times - February 24, 2015 - Claiming that Iran’s government has been lying for years to U.N. nuclear inspectors, a prominent Iranian dissident group on Tuesday asserted that scientists in the Islamic Republic have actually been running a secret uranium enrichment operation at a facility buried deep beneath the ground in the northeast suburbs of Tehran since 2008.

Iranian opposition unveils Iranian secret nuclear site

AFP - 24 February 2015 - An exiled Iranian opposition group Tuesday accused Tehran of running a 'secret' uranium enrichment site close to Tehran, which it said violated ongoing talks with global powers on a nuclear deal.

Andranik Asatourian

Maryam Rajavi offers condolences to the Assatourian family, artist community, and the Iranian people

Andranik Assatourian, composer, conductor, celebrated authority on Iranian music, and member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ), passed away on Sunday, February 22. He died at the age of 73 after succumbing to cancer at a hospital in Los Angeles (USA).

NCRI press Conference in Washington National Press Club

To no surprise to any of you, the terrorist regime of Iran has been totally playing Obama in these ‘nuclear’ negotiations. As it turns out, they have a secret nuclear facility that they’ve never even mentioned before, and it’s only coming to light now because of the hard work of the NCRI who released the information at the Press Club in DC.

Monday, February 23, 2015

Latest News on Iran and the World

Fears mount among Iran’s neighbors over nuclear talks

►2/23/2015 7:21:10 AMThe emerging terms of a deal to curb Iran’s quest for a nuclear bomb is striking fear to ... More▸

Drug money is used in Iran’s politics, Interior Minister admits

►2/23/2015 7:21:10 AM ‘Dirty money,’ including money obtained from drug trafficking ‘has entered the political life in ... More▸

Tehran: ’Vitana’ Cookie Co. workers on strike

►2/23/2015 7:21:10 AMWorkers at ’Vitana’ Cookie Co. went on strike and staged a rally outside the factory in Tehran on ... More▸

Time to stand against Iranian regime

►2/23/2015 7:21:10 AMThirty-six years ago this month, what began as the anti-monarchic democratic revolution in Iran was ... More▸

Tehran: A Gathering of contracting employees of Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company

►2/22/2015 7:45:46 PMA number of contracting personnel of Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company gathered in front ... More▸

Iran, Tabriz: Workers’ gathering of Tabriz Company in front of the governor’s office

►2/22/2015 7:45:46 PMA number of Tabriz-kaf Company workers gathered in front of the governor’s office, to protest their ... More▸

Iran: A call by Teachers’ Union for gathering on Feb. 29th

►2/22/2015 7:45:46 PMAccording to a report, Iran Teachers’ Union issued a call for all Iranian teachers to stage a ... More

Friday, February 20, 2015

Iran nuclear talks continue in Geneva

Iran s nuclear program continues

The representatives of the Iranian regime and the U.S. Government will meet in Geneva to resume nuclear talks.

According to IRNA, the official news agency in Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi announced that the nuclear negotiations will continue Friday with the participation of Mohammad Javad Zarif and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

The Iranian regime has not still provided information about all suspicions that it may have researched an atomic bomb, a UN watchdog’s report showed on Thursday.

The report by the Vienna based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the Iranian regime’s nuclear program said Tehran had still not provided information about two areas of the IAEA’s investigation that was due by late August.

Iran executed a juvenile

According to an exclusive report just received, the brutal clerical regime in Iran ignored all international cries and calls to halt the execution of a juvenile, Saman Naseem and hanged him and two other political prisoners identified as Habib Afshari and his brother Ali Afshari.

AI-The whereabouts of Saman Naseem currently unknown

The lack of news about Saman Naseem’s fate or whereabouts with prison officers denying his family any information is cruel and inhuman.

Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Iran: twoBaha’i citizens arrested

Mullahs’ Intelligence agents barged in at the house of Parisa Yadgar a Baha’i’s resident in Tehran, searching the house for about 5 hours and interrogating residents and guests at the house.

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Iran, Khuzestan: Protest gathering of Shadegan farmers in front of AhwazWater Organization

Water being derailed from agrecultural lands

A number of Shadegan city residents staged a protest gathering in front of Ahwaz Water Organization to protest the lack of water resources in their region. Shadegan is city in Khuzestan located southern of Iran.

The protesters raised a big sign saying: we the farmers of Shadegan city are suffering water shortage.

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Iran: Dangerous diseases are threatening the lives of Arak Petrochemical Plant workers Arak

Arak Petrochemical Plant workers

Petrochemical Plant workers who work in a polluted job environment and come in to contact with different hazardous chemical substances are in danger of getting serious diseases due to low safety standards and lack of proper medical and expert monitoring and treatment.